Hugo Meurer

Hugo Meurer (28 May 1869-4 January 1960) was a Vice-Admiral of the Imperial German Navy during World War I and the Finnish Civil War.

Biography
Hugo Meurer was born in Sallach, Carinthia, Austria-Hungary in 1869, and he joined the Imperial German Navy in 1886. He commanded SMS Deutschland during World War I, fighting at the Battle of Jutland. In 1917, he became a Rear-Admiral, and he came to command a battle squadron of the Hgh Seas Fleet. In 1918, he led a German naval expedition to support White Finland during the Finnish Civil War, and, that same year, he negotiated the surrender of the German navy to Admiral David Beatty of the British Royal Navy when World War I came to an end. He retired in 1920 with the rank of Vice-Admiral in the Reichsmarine, and he died in Kiel, West Germany in 1960.